KARACHI / ISLAMABAD — PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday called for a “political reset”, wherein all political parties must unite for the sake of the country, while also urging the prime minister to take measures to build trust with the government’s allies and the opposition. The PPP chairperson was addressing an event to mark the completion of one million houses for flood affectees under the Sindh Flood Resilience Project (SFRP), which he said “made history” by being the largest house-building programme in the world.
“The Sindh government has built one million houses, and when this project is completed, we would have built two million houses,” Bilawal said. Referring to the ongoing oil and energy crisis due to the US-Iran war, he said that Pakistan and the world were facing an “economic catastrophe” and stressed that “Pakistan’s politics will definitely have to be reset” to combat it. “But via this reset, political parties will have to work together instead of fighting,” he added.
Emphasising that the public did not want to witness further fighting, the Bhutto scion reiterated, “We need a political reset.” He invited Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to first “restore the trust of his allies”, then of opposition parties, “instead of picking new fights with them”. The former foreign minister contended that the ongoing economic crisis was one of the worst in the world’s history, and therefore